It’s safe to say that things aren’t going well for Vice President Kamala Harris in the pivotal swing state of Pennsylvania, as the 2024 presidential election draws nearer and nearer.
Not only is the Harris-Walz campaign dead in the water in the Keystone State; if Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is right, Pennsylvania voters are going gaga over former President Donald Trump — bigly.
In an extensive interview with The New York Times published on Saturday morning, Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state, referring to voter support for Trump as “astonishing,” and even suggesting that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s endorsement of the former president is “going to really matter”:
There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists. And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing. I was doing an event in Indiana [Pa.] County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long.
[There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, ‘Where does this all come from?’ It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real.